Plate 16. 



ADENIUM MULTIFLOKUM. 



Transvaal, Zululand, Portuguese East Africa. 



Apocynaceae. Tribe Echitideae. 

 Adenium, R. & S. ; Bentli. et HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. 2, p. 722. 



Adenium multiflorum, Klotzch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. p. 279, 

 t. xliv., Fl. Cap. vol. 4, sect. 1, p. 514. 



The specimen from which our illustration was made is 

 growing in the Gardens of the Division of Botany, Pretoria, 

 and was presented by Mr. A. E. Antrobus, Cloud's End, 

 Louis Trichard, in the Zoutpansberg District. The flowers 

 appeared in September before the leaves, which only made their 

 appearance the following month. The species does very well 

 on a rockery, and when it flowers is a very pleasing sight. 



Desceiption : — A plant with a very large tuber just below 

 the ground-level and from which the branches spring. 

 Branches more or less succulent, glabrous. Leaves appearing 

 after the flowers, sub-sessile, 3*5-9 cm. long, 1 -5-6*5 cm. 

 broad, obovate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, dark green and 

 very shiny above, pale green and dull beneath, with the mid- 

 rib and lateral veins distinct above, the mid-rib alone 

 prominent beneath. Inflorescence cymose, up to 5-flowered, 

 terminal. Sepals lanceolate, pilose. Corolla-tube about 3 

 cm. long, 1*2 cm. broad above, tubular below, pilose without 

 and within on the broadened portion; lobes, 1*7-2*5 cm. long, 

 about 1 cm. broad, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, shortly 

 acuminate, acute, with crinkled edges, usually sparsely 

 pubescent on the upper portion, pink, with dark red margins. 

 Anthers densely villous. 



Plate 16.— Fig. 1, plant, reduced; Fig. 2, leaf; Fig. 3, calyx; Fig. 4, 

 stamen ; Fig. 5, pistil. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



